Conference – 2018

TRADE-OFFS: A HISTORY OF CANADA’S NEGOTIATINGTRADE AGREEMENTS WITH THE UNITED STATES

Date: November 7th-8th, 2018Location: Massey College and Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto

Sponsors: Deloitte Canada

Synopsis: A conference of academics, politicians and business practitioners to study and analyze the history of Canada’s efforts in negotiating past trade agreements, and assess the status of its current negotiations, with the United States. This critical assessment will be the basis of a series of broad guidelines for future trade negotiation efforts. This conference will be archived on the CBHA/ACHA YouTube channel. A book of the proceedings of the conference will be published and widely available in January 2019.

Greg Keenan (Globe &Mail)
Andrei Sulzenko (Executive Fellow, School of Public Policy, University of Calgary)
Eugene Beaulieu (Director, International Economics Program, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary)

Moderator: Joe Martin (Rotman School of Management)
Larry Herman (Herman & Associates)
John Weekes (Bennett Jones, Former Canadian Chief Negotiator, NAFTA and former Ambassador to the WTO)
Walid Hejazi (Rotman School of Management)

3:00 pm – 3:15 pm Comfort break

3:15 pm – 4:30 pm The Future

Patrice Dutil (Ryerson University) ‘Comparing the Nixon and Trump Shocks to Trade Between Canada and the United States’
Jon MacKay (University of Waterloo) ‘Changing Patterns of Trade – Implications for the Future)